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463f2625a5 Support SECURITY LABEL on databases, tablespaces, and roles.
This requires a new shared catalog, pg_shseclabel.

Along the way, fix the security_label regression tests so that they
don't monkey with the labels of any pre-existing objects.  This is
unlikely to matter in practice, since only the label for the "dummy"
provider was being manipulated.  But this way still seems cleaner.

KaiGai Kohei, with fairly extensive hacking by me.
2011-07-20 13:18:24 -04:00
cacd42d62c Rewrite libxml error handling to be more robust.
libxml reports some errors (like invalid xmlns attributes) via the error
handler hook, but still returns a success indicator to the library caller.
This causes us to miss some errors that are important to report.  Since the
"generic" error handler hook doesn't know whether the message it's getting
is for an error, warning, or notice, stop using that and instead start
using the "structured" error handler hook, which gets enough information
to be useful.

While at it, arrange to save and restore the error handler hook setting in
each libxml-using function, rather than assuming we can set and forget the
hook.  This should improve the odds of working nicely with third-party
libraries that also use libxml.

In passing, volatile-ize some local variables that get modified within
PG_TRY blocks.  I noticed this while testing with an older gcc version
than I'd previously tried to compile xml.c with.

Florian Pflug and Tom Lane, with extensive review/testing by Noah Misch
2011-07-20 13:03:49 -04:00
4bd8ed31b7 Introduce sending servers as new category for replication params
Fujii Masao
2011-07-19 08:59:55 +01:00
5286105800 Cascading replication feature for streaming log-based replication.
Standby servers can now have WALSender processes, which can work with
either WALReceiver or archive_commands to pass data. Fully updated
docs, including new conceptual terms of sending server, upstream and
downstream servers. WALSenders terminated when promote to master.

Fujii Masao, review, rework and doc rewrite by Simon Riggs
2011-07-19 03:40:03 +01:00
367bc426a1 Avoid index rebuild for no-rewrite ALTER TABLE .. ALTER TYPE.
Noah Misch.  Review and minor cosmetic changes by me.
2011-07-18 11:04:43 -04:00
3cba8999b3 Create a "fast path" for acquiring weak relation locks.
When an AccessShareLock, RowShareLock, or RowExclusiveLock is requested
on an unshared database relation, and we can verify that no conflicting
locks can possibly be present, record the lock in a per-backend queue,
stored within the PGPROC, rather than in the primary lock table.  This
eliminates a great deal of contention on the lock manager LWLocks.

This patch also refactors the interface between GetLockStatusData() and
pg_lock_status() to be a bit more abstract, so that we don't rely so
heavily on the lock manager's internal representation details.  The new
fast path lock structures don't have a LOCK or PROCLOCK structure to
return, so we mustn't depend on that for purposes of listing outstanding
locks.

Review by Jeff Davis.
2011-07-18 00:49:28 -04:00
b59d2fe497 Add pg_opfamily_is_visible.
We already have similar functions for many other object types, including
operator classes, so it seems like we should have this one, too.

Extracted from a larger patch by Josh Kupershmidt
2011-07-17 23:23:55 -04:00
23e5b16c71 Add temp_file_limit GUC parameter to constrain temporary file space usage.
The limit is enforced against the total amount of temp file space used by
each session.

Mark Kirkwood, reviewed by Cédric Villemain and Tatsuo Ishii
2011-07-17 14:19:31 -04:00
ed7ed76712 Add an errdetail_internal() ereport auxiliary routine.
This function supports untranslated detail messages, in the same way that
errmsg_internal supports untranslated primary messages.  We've needed this
for some time IMO, but discussion of some cases in the SSI code provided
the impetus to actually add it.

Kevin Grittner, with minor adjustments by me
2011-07-16 14:22:15 -04:00
8d260911e8 Change the way the offset of downlink is stored in GISTInsertStack.
GISTInsertStack.childoffnum used to mean "offset of the downlink in this
node, pointing to the child node in the stack". It's now replaced with
downlinkoffnum, which means "offset of the downlink in the parent of this
node". gistFindPath() already used childoffnum with this new meaning, and
had an extra step at the end to pull all the childoffnum values down one
node in the stack, to adjust the stack for the meaning that childoffnum had
elsewhere. That's no longer required.

The reason to do this now is this new representation is more convenient for
the GiST fast build patch that Alexander Korotkov is working on.

While we're at it, replace the linked list used in gistFindPath with a
standard List, and make gistFindPath() static.

Alexander Korotkov, with some changes by me.
2011-07-15 12:18:30 +03:00
c1d9579dd8 Avoid listing ungrouped Vars in the targetlist of Agg-underneath-Window.
Regular aggregate functions in combination with, or within the arguments
of, window functions are OK per spec; they have the semantics that the
aggregate output rows are computed and then we run the window functions
over that row set.  (Thus, this combination is not really useful unless
there's a GROUP BY so that more than one aggregate output row is possible.)
The case without GROUP BY could fail, as recently reported by Jeff Davis,
because sloppy construction of the Agg node's targetlist resulted in extra
references to possibly-ungrouped Vars appearing outside the aggregate
function calls themselves.  See the added regression test case for an
example.

Fixing this requires modifying the API of flatten_tlist and its underlying
function pull_var_clause.  I chose to make pull_var_clause's API for
aggregates identical to what it was already doing for placeholders, since
the useful behaviors turn out to be the same (error, report node as-is, or
recurse into it).  I also tightened the error checking in this area a bit:
if it was ever valid to see an uplevel Var, Aggref, or PlaceHolderVar here,
that was a long time ago, so complain instead of ignoring them.

Backpatch into 9.1.  The failure exists in 8.4 and 9.0 as well, but seeing
that it only occurs in a basically-useless corner case, it doesn't seem
worth the risks of changing a function API in a minor release.  There might
be third-party code using pull_var_clause.
2011-07-12 18:24:39 -04:00
4240e429d0 Try to acquire relation locks in RangeVarGetRelid.
In the previous coding, we would look up a relation in RangeVarGetRelid,
lock the resulting OID, and then AcceptInvalidationMessages().  While
this was sufficient to ensure that we noticed any changes to the
relation definition before building the relcache entry, it didn't
handle the possibility that the name we looked up no longer referenced
the same OID.  This was particularly problematic in the case where a
table had been dropped and recreated: we'd latch on to the entry for
the old relation and fail later on.  Now, we acquire the relation lock
inside RangeVarGetRelid, and retry the name lookup if we notice that
invalidation messages have been processed meanwhile.  Many operations
that would previously have failed with an error in the presence of
concurrent DDL will now succeed.

There is a good deal of work remaining to be done here: many callers
of RangeVarGetRelid still pass NoLock for one reason or another.  In
addition, nothing in this patch guards against the possibility that
the meaning of an unqualified name might change due to the creation
of a relation in a schema earlier in the user's search path than the
one where it was previously found.  Furthermore, there's nothing at
all here to guard against similar race conditions for non-relations.
For all that, it's a start.

Noah Misch and Robert Haas
2011-07-08 22:19:30 -04:00
9d522cb35d Fix another oversight in logging of changes in postgresql.conf settings.
We were using GetConfigOption to collect the old value of each setting,
overlooking the possibility that it didn't exist yet.  This does happen
in the case of adding a new entry within a custom variable class, as
exhibited in bug #6097 from Maxim Boguk.

To fix, add a missing_ok parameter to GetConfigOption, but only in 9.1
and HEAD --- it seems possible that some third-party code is using that
function, so changing its API in a minor release would cause problems.
In 9.0, create a near-duplicate function instead.
2011-07-08 17:02:58 -04:00
89fd72cbf2 Introduce a pipe between postmaster and each backend, which can be used to
detect postmaster death. Postmaster keeps the write-end of the pipe open,
so when it dies, children get EOF in the read-end. That can conveniently
be waited for in select(), which allows eliminating some of the polling
loops that check for postmaster death. This patch doesn't yet change all
the loops to use the new mechanism, expect a follow-on patch to do that.

This changes the interface to WaitLatch, so that it takes as argument a
bitmask of events that it waits for. Possible events are latch set, timeout,
postmaster death, and socket becoming readable or writeable.

The pipe method behaves slightly differently from the kill() method
previously used in PostmasterIsAlive() in the case that postmaster has died,
but its parent has not yet read its exit code with waitpid(). The pipe
returns EOF as soon as the process dies, but kill() continues to return
true until waitpid() has been called (IOW while the process is a zombie).
Because of that, change PostmasterIsAlive() to use the pipe too, otherwise
WaitLatch() would return immediately with WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH, while
PostmasterIsAlive() would claim it's still alive. That could easily lead to
busy-waiting while postmaster is in zombie state.

Peter Geoghegan with further changes by me, reviewed by Fujii Masao and
Florian Pflug.
2011-07-08 18:44:07 +03:00
406d61835b SSI has a race condition, where the order of commit sequence numbers of
transactions might not match the order the work done in those transactions
become visible to others. The logic in SSI, however, assumed that it does.
Fix that by having two sequence numbers for each serializable transaction,
one taken before a transaction becomes visible to others, and one after it.
This is easier than trying to make the the transition totally atomic, which
would require holding ProcArrayLock and SerializableXactHashLock at the same
time. By using prepareSeqNo instead of commitSeqNo in a few places where
commit sequence numbers are compared, we can make those comparisons err on
the safe side when we don't know for sure which committed first.

Per analysis by Kevin Grittner and Dan Ports, but this approach to fix it
is different from the original patch.
2011-07-07 23:26:34 +03:00
60a81ad133 Reclassify replication-related GUC variables as "master" and "standby".
Per discussion, this structure seems more understandable than what was
there before.  Make config.sgml and postgresql.conf.sample agree.

In passing do a bit of editorial work on the variable descriptions.
2011-07-07 15:11:41 -04:00
14f67192c2 Remove assumptions that not-equals operators cannot be in any opclass.
get_op_btree_interpretation assumed this in order to save some duplication
of code, but it's not true in general anymore because we added <> support
to btree_gist.  (We still assume it for btree opclasses, though.)

Also, essentially the same logic was baked into predtest.c.  Get rid of
that duplication by generalizing get_op_btree_interpretation so that it
can be used by predtest.c.

Per bug report from Denis de Bernardy and investigation by Jeff Davis,
though I didn't use Jeff's patch exactly as-is.

Back-patch to 9.1; we do not support this usage before that.
2011-07-06 14:53:16 -04:00
c7f23494c1 Add \ir command to psql.
\ir is short for "include relative"; when used from a script, the
supplied pathname will be interpreted relative to the input file,
rather than to the current working directory.

Gurjeet Singh, reviewed by Josh Kupershmidt, with substantial further
cleanup by me.
2011-07-06 11:45:13 -04:00
b93f5a5673 Move Trigger and TriggerDesc structs out of rel.h into a new reltrigger.h
This lets us stop including rel.h into execnodes.h, which is a widely
used header.
2011-07-04 14:35:58 -04:00
e54ae784e6 Remove missed reference to SilentMode. 2011-07-04 10:35:52 -04:00
5da79169d3 Fix bugs in relpersistence handling during table creation.
Unlike the relistemp field which it replaced, relpersistence must be
set correctly quite early during the table creation process, as we
rely on it quite early on for a number of purposes, including security
checks.  Normally, this is set based on whether the user enters CREATE
TABLE, CREATE UNLOGGED TABLE, or CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE, but a
relation may also be made implicitly temporary by creating it in
pg_temp.  This patch fixes the handling of that case, and also
disables creation of unlogged tables in temporary tablespace (such
table indeed skip WAL-logging, but we reject an explicit
specification) and creation of relations in the temporary schemas of
other sessions (which is not very sensible, and didn't work right
anyway).

Report by Amit Khandekar.
2011-07-03 17:34:47 -04:00
24e2d4b6ba Mark pg_stat_reset_shared as strict
This is the proper fix for bug #6082 about
pg_stat_reset_shared(NULL) causing a crash, and it reverts
commit 79aa44536f3980d324f486504cde643ce23bf5c6 on head.

The workaround of throwing an error from inside the function is
left on backbranches (including 9.1) since this change requires
a new initdb.
2011-07-03 13:15:58 +02:00
897795240c Enable CHECK constraints to be declared NOT VALID
This means that they can initially be added to a large existing table
without checking its initial contents, but new tuples must comply to
them; a separate pass invoked by ALTER TABLE / VALIDATE can verify
existing data and ensure it complies with the constraint, at which point
it is marked validated and becomes a normal part of the table ecosystem.

An non-validated CHECK constraint is ignored in the planner for
constraint_exclusion purposes; when validated, cached plans are
recomputed so that partitioning starts working right away.

This patch also enables domains to have unvalidated CHECK constraints
attached to them as well by way of ALTER DOMAIN / ADD CONSTRAINT / NOT
VALID, which can later be validated with ALTER DOMAIN / VALIDATE
CONSTRAINT.

Thanks to Thom Brown, Dean Rasheed and Jaime Casanova for the various
reviews, and Robert Hass for documentation wording improvement
suggestions.

This patch was sponsored by Enova Financial.
2011-06-30 11:24:31 -04:00
cd70dd6bef Move the PredicateLockRelation() call from nodeSeqscan.c to heapam.c. It's
more consistent that way, since all the other PredicateLock* calls are
made in various heapam.c and index AM functions. The call in nodeSeqscan.c
was unnecessarily aggressive anyway, there's no need to try to lock the
relation every time a tuple is fetched, it's enough to do it once.

This has the user-visible effect that if a seq scan is initialized in the
executor, but never executed, we now acquire the predicate lock on the heap
relation anyway. We could avoid that by taking the lock on the first
heap_getnext() call instead, but it doesn't seem worth the trouble given
that it feels more natural to do it in heap_beginscan().

Also, remove the retail PredicateLockTuple() calls from heap_getnext(). In
a seqscan, started with heap_begin(), we're holding a whole-relation
predicate lock on the heap so there's no need to lock the tuples
individually.

Kevin Grittner and me
2011-06-29 21:57:43 +03:00
465883b0a2 Introduce compact WAL record for the common case of commit (non-DDL).
XLOG_XACT_COMMIT_COMPACT leaves out invalidation messages and relfilenodes,
saving considerable space for the vast majority of transaction commits.
XLOG_XACT_COMMIT keeps same definition as XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC 0xD067 and earlier.

Leonardo Francalanci and Simon Riggs
2011-06-28 22:58:17 +01:00
6f3efa76b0 Remove rel.h from objectaddress.h; only relcache.h is necessary.
Add rel.h to some files that now need it.
2011-06-28 17:08:29 -04:00
e5e2fc842c Modernise pg_hba.conf token processing
The previous coding was ugly, as it marked special tokens as such in the
wrong stage, relying on workarounds to figure out if they had been
quoted in the original or not.  This made it impossible to have specific
keywords be recognized as such only in certain positions in HBA lines,
for example.  Fix by restructuring the parser code so that it remembers
whether tokens were quoted or not.  This eliminates widespread knowledge
of possible known keywords for all fields.

Also improve memory management in this area, to use memory contexts that
are reset as a whole instead of using retail pfrees; this removes a
whole lotta crufty (and probably slow) code.

Instead of calling strlen() three times in next_field_expand on the
returned token to find out whether there was a comma (and strip it),
pass back the info directly from the callee, which is simpler.

In passing, update historical artifacts in hba.c API.

Authors: Brendan Jurd, Alvaro Herrera
Reviewed by Pavel Stehule
2011-06-28 15:57:24 -04:00
c533c1477f Add a missing_ok argument to get_object_address().
This lays the groundwork for an upcoming patch to streamline the
handling of DROP commands.

KaiGai Kohei
2011-06-27 21:19:31 -04:00
9abbed0629 Allow callers to pass a missing_ok flag when opening a relation.
Since the names try_relation_openrv() and try_heap_openrv() don't seem
quite appropriate, rename the functions to relation_openrv_extended()
and heap_openrv_extended().  This is also more general, if we have a
future need for additional parameters that are of interest to only a
few callers.

This is infrastructure for a forthcoming patch to allow
get_object_address() to take a missing_ok argument as well.

Patch by me, review by Noah Misch.
2011-06-27 15:25:44 -04:00
e16954f3d2 Try again to make the visibility map crash safe.
My previous attempt was quite a bit less than half-baked with respect to
heap_update().
2011-06-27 13:55:55 -04:00
4da99ea423 Avoid having two copies of the HOT-chain search logic.
It's been like this since HOT was originally introduced, but the logic
is complex enough that this is a recipe for bugs, as we've already
found out with SSI.  So refactor heap_hot_search_buffer() so that it
can satisfy the needs of index_getnext(), and make index_getnext() use
that rather than duplicating the logic.

This change was originally proposed by Heikki Linnakangas as part of a
larger refactoring oriented towards allowing index-only scans.  I
extracted and adjusted this part, since it seems to have independent
merit.  Review by Jeff Davis.
2011-06-27 10:27:17 -04:00
5da417f7c4 Remove pointless const qualifiers from function arguments in the SSI code.
As Tom Lane pointed out, "const Relation foo" doesn't guarantee that you
can't modify the data the "foo" pointer points to. It just means that you
can't change the pointer to point to something else within the function,
which is not very useful.
2011-06-22 12:18:39 +03:00
503c7305a1 Make the visibility map crash-safe.
This involves two main changes from the previous behavior.  First,
when we set a bit in the visibility map, emit a new WAL record of type
XLOG_HEAP2_VISIBLE.  Replay sets the page-level PD_ALL_VISIBLE bit and
the visibility map bit.  Second, when inserting, updating, or deleting
a tuple, we can no longer get away with clearing the visibility map
bit after releasing the lock on the corresponding heap page, because
an intervening crash might leave the visibility map bit set and the
page-level bit clear.  Making this work requires a bit of interface
refactoring.

In passing, a few minor but related cleanups: change the test in
visibilitymap_set and visibilitymap_clear to throw an error if the
wrong page (or no page) is pinned, rather than silently doing nothing;
this case should never occur.  Also, remove duplicate definitions of
InvalidXLogRecPtr.

Patch by me, review by Noah Misch.
2011-06-21 23:04:40 -04:00
8f9fe6edce Add notion of a "transform function" that can simplify function calls.
Initially, we use this only to eliminate calls to the varchar()
function in cases where the length is not being reduced and, therefore,
the function call is equivalent to a RelabelType operation.  The most
significant effect of this is that we can avoid a table rewrite when
changing a varchar(X) column to a varchar(Y) column, where Y > X.

Noah Misch, reviewed by me and Alexey Klyukin
2011-06-21 22:21:24 -04:00
7cb2ff9621 Fix bug introduced by recent SSI patch to merge ROLLED_BACK and
MARKED_FOR_DEATH flags into one. We still need the ROLLED_BACK flag to
mark transactions that are in the process of being rolled back. To be
precise, ROLLED_BACK now means that a transaction has already been
discounted from the count of transactions with the oldest xmin, but not
yet removed from the list of active transactions.

Dan Ports
2011-06-21 14:49:50 +03:00
ddef31c15c Set FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER to empty for MSVC.
Per gripe from Tom Lane. I have tested this with VC 2008, and assume
it will work with earlier versions.
2011-06-17 18:22:03 -04:00
236a11dc65 Define FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER for MSVC. 2011-06-16 22:30:24 -04:00
dbbba5279f Start using flexible array members
Flexible array members are a C99 feature that avoids "cheating" in the
declaration of variable-length arrays at the end of structs.  With
Autoconf support, this should be transparent for older compilers.

We start with one use in gist.h because gcc 4.6 started to raise a
warning there.  Over time, it can be expanded to other places in the
source, but they will likely need some review of sizeof and offsetof
usage.  The current change in gist.h appears to be safe in this
regard.
2011-06-16 22:45:38 +03:00
cb94db91b2 pgindent run of recent SSI changes. Also, remove an unnecessary #include.
Kevin Grittner
2011-06-16 16:17:22 +03:00
e1ccaff6ee Rework parsing of ConstraintAttributeSpec to improve NOT VALID handling.
The initial commit of the ALTER TABLE ADD FOREIGN KEY NOT VALID feature
failed to support labeling such constraints as deferrable.  The best fix
for this seems to be to fold NOT VALID into ConstraintAttributeSpec.
That's a bit more general than the documented syntax, but it allows
better-targeted syntax error messages.

In addition, do some mostly-but-not-entirely-cosmetic code review for
the whole NOT VALID patch.
2011-06-15 19:06:21 -04:00
264a6b127a The rolled-back flag on serializable xacts was pointless and redundant with
the marked-for-death flag. It was only set for a fleeting moment while a
transaction was being cleaned up at rollback. All the places that checked
for the rolled-back flag should also check the marked-for-death flag, as
both flags mean that the transaction will roll back. I also renamed the
marked-for-death into "doomed", which is a lot shorter name.
2011-06-15 13:35:28 +03:00
0a0e2b52a5 Make non-MVCC snapshots exempt from predicate locking. Scans with non-MVCC
snapshots, like in REINDEX, are basically non-transactional operations. The
DDL operation itself might participate in SSI, but there's separate
functions for that.

Kevin Grittner and Dan Ports, with some changes by me.
2011-06-15 12:11:18 +03:00
b81831acbc Renumber 2PC resource managers so that compared to 9.0, predicate lock rmgr
is added to the end, and existing resource managers keep their old ids.
We're not going to guarantee on-disk compatibility for 2PC state files over
major releases, but it seems better to avoid changing the ids them anyway.
It will help anyone who might want to write external tools to inspect the
state files to work with files from different versions, if nothing else.
Per complaint from Tom Lane.
2011-06-14 12:36:31 +03:00
c962792211 Stamp HEAD as 9.2devel. 2011-06-11 17:46:49 -04:00
c2ba0121c7 Work around gcc 4.6.0 bug that breaks WAL replay.
ReadRecord's habit of using both direct references to tmpRecPtr and
references to *RecPtr (which is pointing at tmpRecPtr) triggers an
optimization bug in gcc 4.6.0, which apparently has forgotten about
aliasing rules.  Avoid the compiler bug, and make the code more readable
to boot, by getting rid of the direct references.  Improve the comments
while at it.

Back-patch to all supported versions, in case they get built with 4.6.0.

Tom Lane, with some cosmetic suggestions from Alex Hunsaker
2011-06-10 17:04:29 -04:00
cb2d158c58 Fix locking while setting flags in MySerializableXact.
Even if a flag is modified only by the backend owning the transaction, it's
not safe to modify it without a lock. Another backend might be setting or
clearing a different flag in the flags field concurrently, and that
operation might be lost because setting or clearing a bit in a word is not
atomic.

Make did-write flag a simple backend-private boolean variable, because it
was only set or tested in the owning backend (except when committing a
prepared transaction, but it's not worthwhile to optimize for the case of a
read-only prepared transaction). This also eliminates the need to add
locking where that flag is set.

Also, set the did-write flag when doing DDL operations like DROP TABLE or
TRUNCATE -- that was missed earlier.
2011-06-10 23:41:10 +03:00
fba105b109 Use "transient" files for blind writes, take 2
"Blind writes" are a mechanism to push buffers down to disk when
evicting them; since they may belong to different databases than the one
a backend is connected to, the backend does not necessarily have a
relation to link them to, and thus no way to blow them away.  We were
keeping those files open indefinitely, which would cause a problem if
the underlying table was deleted, because the operating system would not
be able to reclaim the disk space used by those files.

To fix, have bufmgr mark such files as transient to smgr; the lower
layer is allowed to close the file descriptor when the current
transaction ends.  We must be careful to have any other access of the
file to remove the transient markings, to prevent unnecessary expensive
system calls when evicting buffers belonging to our own database (which
files we're likely to require again soon.)

This commit fixes a bug in the previous one, which neglected to cleanly
handle the LRU ring that fd.c uses to manage open files, and caused an
unacceptable failure just before beta2 and was thus reverted.
2011-06-10 13:43:02 -04:00
c79c570bd8 Small comment fixes and enhancements. 2011-06-10 17:22:46 +03:00
829ae4bf83 Tag 9.1beta2. 2011-06-09 19:40:42 -04:00
9261557eb1 Revert "Use "transient" files for blind writes"
This reverts commit 54d9e8c6c19cbefa8fb42ed3442a0a5327590ed3, which
caused a failure on the buildfarm.  Not a good thing to have just before
a beta release.
2011-06-09 16:41:44 -04:00